Peter de Sève

Peter de Sève (born 1958) is an American artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots, the Ice Age franchise, and on the main animal character E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) in the 2011 Easter-themed comedy film Hop.

de Sève designed the characters for Arthur Christmas, for which he was nominated for Annie Award. He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000. He is also a recipient of the Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators, a Clio Award for a Nike television commercial, and a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Animated Character Design for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

de Sève won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Design for his work on the Sesame Street segment Abby Cadabby's Flying Fairy School. He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company.

Work Character designer Films The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) The Little Prince (2015) Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) Rock Dog (2016) Monster Trucks (2017) The Grinch (2018) Spies in Disguise (2019) Extinct (2021) The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) A Greyhound of a Girl (2023) The Monkey King (2023) Migration (2023)

Shorts No Time for Nuts (2006) Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (2010) Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011) Phil's Dance Party (2012) Alex and Sylvia (2015) Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015) Scrat: Spaced Out (2016)

Television Sesame Street (2009-2012) (Abby's Flying Fairy School segments) Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2012) Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) A Tale Dark & Grimm (2021) Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022)

Visual development artist The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Mulan (1998) A Bug's Life (1998) Tarzan (1999) The Emperor's New Groove (2000) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Treasure Planet (2002) Finding Nemo (2003) Ratatouille (2007) Epic (2013) Ferdinand (2017) The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

Acting roles Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - Condor Chick Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011) - Self

Books (Partial list)

Sketchbook Peter de Sève (2003) A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève (2009) The Duchess of Whimsy with Randall de Sève (2009) Local Fauna: The Art of Peter de Sève (2023) The Visitor et autres dessins, Peter de Sève (2024)

Other Lilo & Stitch (2002) (additional production support)